Sean Claggett
VerifiedAbout Sean Claggett
Sean Claggett is the Founding Partner and lead Trial Lawyer at Claggett & Sykes Trial Lawyers in Las Vegas, Nevada, which he established in 2005. He represents clients in complex personal injury cases nationwide. The firm has grown to over 60 employees, including more than 20 attorneys.
Claggett earned his Juris Doctor cum laude from the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2003 and his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UNLV in 2000. He served as staff editor of the Nevada Law Journal, was a member of the National Moot Court team, and won the Society of Advocates oral argument competition. He is admitted to the State Bar of Nevada.
Claggett serves as Adjunct Professor at UNLV Boyd School of Law since 2013. His honors include Nevada Justice Association Trial Lawyer of the Year (2017), Titan of Trial by Trial Lawyers University, AV Preeminent rating, AVVO 10/10, and Mountain States Super Lawyer (2014-2022).
Notable case results
A Rio Arriba County jury held Acadia Healthcare and its New Mexico foster care subsidiaries responsible for placing an 8-year-old girl with a foster father who raped her repeatedly, returning one of the largest single-plaintiff sexual abuse verdicts in the country.
A retrial jury in Utah's Fourth District Court awarded $81 million against Beacon Roofing Supply after one of its trucks struck and killed a 12-year-old boy who was crossing legally in a marked crosswalk.
A Clark County jury found Amy Geiler's losses worth just under $47 million after hospital doctors raised her dangerously low blood sodium too quickly, causing permanent brainstem damage and locked-in syndrome.
A Clark County jury returned $38.8 million against Republic Services after one of its garbage trucks turned through a marked crosswalk and struck and killed an 11-year-old girl who was crossing with the walk signal.
A Las Vegas jury awarded bicyclist Thunder Roybal more than $14.1 million after an SUV driven for the Sapphire Gentleman's Club struck and ran him over, a verdict the Nevada Supreme Court later affirmed in full.
A Clark County jury held Lowe's responsible after Kelly Hendrickson slipped on liquid draining from store planters, fractured her skull, and permanently lost her senses of taste and smell.
Sean Claggett asked a Las Vegas jury for up to $63 million for Elisa Sales, who suffered permanent brain damage after monitor alarms were silenced and resuscitation was delayed during a pacemaker procedure, and the hospital settled for a confidential sum while the jury deliberated.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
